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Scientific and cultural advancement involve discussion of new ideas.
But before discussion can even take place, there must be exposure to those ideas.
In two related episodes, I will present two theories that deserve greater exposure,
each from a scientific voice that has proven their expertise before.
Theories that are relevant to this group's prime focus
are showcasing rarely heard ideas from the electrical sciences
with surprising implications.
In this case, lesser-known ideas
about how life could have arisen in our planet's primordial past.
In this episode I'll be sharing a little-known theory
from electrophysiologist and science advisor Robert O. Becker.
From his multidisciplinary expertise, he considered how semiconducting crystals
could have provided the basic patterns of life,
encoded into increasingly nuanced and organic systems.
His exciting memoir can be viewed through a link in the description
and the following ideas begin on page 257, paraphrased here from their original order.
As we walk in nature, breathing deeply of our refreshing nitrogen atmosphere,
using its 20% oxygen content to complete a dance of electrons in our body,
imagine this planet with a different sky above.
Picture a rocky earth untouched by physical life,
with an atmosphere of noxious gases and electrical storms.
To this effect dr. Becker mentioned the work of Cole & Graf.
He theorized, in 1974, that Earth's ancient volcanic atmosphere
was so much larger then, that it pushed the ionosphere further out.
Far enough that it coupled with the ancient Van Allen belts
creating a strong resonating discharge into the Earth.
The ultraviolet radiation, infrasound, and additional electric energy created by this
would influence chemical reactions.
Furthermore, Becker argued that this added energy
would complement the electrical behaviours in crystals with semiconducting properties.
Crystals like quartz which, at the smallest scale of our reality,
is comprised of the lattice of silicon atoms interspersed with oxygen.
In addition to being a growing and self-repairing structure,
such crystals generate electrical current under various external stimuli.
Under physical pressure such crystals generate electric potentials
known as piezoelectricity.
Or due to heating, known as pyroelectricity,
and in response to light exposure, they emit electrons known as photoelectricity.
The passage of electricity through such a crystal
can also alter future habits of electron flow.
Dr. Becker reasoned that these combined electrical traits
could be a primordial analog to memory.
The volcanic primordial earth would also produce crystals with all manner of impurities,
varying their electronic properties even more,
creating a diversity of these self-repairing and conductive structures,
each slowly evolving in its repertoire of habitual electronic responses
to the forces of nature around it.
And each affected by cyclical variations in the Earth's field.
Eventually they would reach a liquid crystal state and beyond.
But their legacy would be cut short by the facts of nature,
Becker reasoned in his model.
He hypothesized that, as soon as the gaseous atmosphere of Earth
decoupled from the Van Allen belts, eliminating a powerful discharge between the two,
any transitional life forms would be robbed of their energy supply.
One more interesting detail about his theory
is that the frequency of the powerful discharge,
resonating between the Van Allen belts and the Earth's core,
would be 10 Hertz, according to his calculations.
I mentioned the 10 Hertz electromagnetic pulsation in the past Thunderblog,
also based on some of Becker's thinking and recounting of history,
where he recounted early circadian research of the Max Planck institute
which discovered that when all other environmental timing cues are removed
and select EMF wavelengths are reintroduced,
human volunteers organ functioning was stabilized by this 10 Hertz micro pulsation.
Becker viewed that oldobservation as an elegant clue.
He described it at the time as a primary frequency in the EEG of animals.
He believed, based on his experience in the field of electrophysiology,
that a sensitivity to that frequency would continue to mark all organic systems,
once shaped largely by its influence.
While Robert O. Becker had been called and trusted
to some private scientific meetings to discuss matters of environment and biology,
his voice and well-formulated opinions on many issues
seem little known in daily public discourse.
I hope this theory of his provides inspiration for scientists, science-fiction writers,
and a slightly changed perspective for all of us born of this Earth.